• CTAN update: makedtx

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    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Vincent BelaNche submitted an update to the

    makedtx

    package.

    Version number: 1.3
    License type: lppl

    Summary description: Perl script to help generate dtx and ins files

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------


    - Add --nodrivendoc switch.
    - Use strict warnings Perl package, and improve code quality/timeproofness
    consequently.
    - Optimize output with Perl heredocuments rather than line by line.
    - Improve Perl argument passing and command line capture
    - Add Makefile help target
    - Remove Makefile dependence on sed
    - BREAKING CHANGE: Fix file name to pre-1.2 name, createdtx.sty -> creatdtx.sty.


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    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/support/makedtx

    More information is at
    https://www.ctan.org/pkg/makedtx

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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun

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